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GENEVA, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA) and the WHO Foundation have signed a multi-year collaboration agreement supporting WHO efforts to strengthen global understanding, diagnosis and care for psoriasis. The collaboration aims to improve outcomes for the more than 100 million people living with psoriasis worldwide.
Psoriasis is a chronic noncommunicable disease that manifests on the skin, but in fact affects the whole body. It is closely linked to depression, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other serious health conditions. For many people, psoriasis can take a heavy physical, emotional and financial toll.
Despite its dramatic impact globally, psoriasis remains one of the most misunderstood and overlooked health conditions. According to Global Psoriasis Atlas, only about 20 percent of countries currently have epidemiological data on psoriasis. The absence of reliable data has contributed to delayed diagnosis, unequal access to care, and a lack of understanding of psoriasis as a chronic disease, affecting all aspects of one's life.
The agreement signed between IFPA and the WHO Foundation marks an important milestone in IFPA's engagement with global health partners and supports WHO-led efforts to strengthen the understanding and management of psoriasis. The multi-year collaboration will focus on strengthening evidence, updating knowledge and policy tools, and improving access to diagnosis and care.
"Signing this agreement with WHO Foundation is a pivotal moment for IFPA and the entire global psoriasis community. We are happy to join efforts with WHO and to leverage its global health leadership to make a profound impact, so that people living with psoriasis can choose and live the lives they want. Today, many people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, live without a proper diagnosis and access to care. More than 80% of people living with psoriasis face stigma and discrimination, nearly half struggle with anxiety, and every third reports to avoid career or study opportunities due to their health condition. We are committed to working together to change this," - said Frida Dunger, IFPA's Executive Director.
"Psoriasis illustrates how skin health connects to broader noncommunicable diseases, mental health and access to care," - said Anil Soni, Chief Executive Officer of the WHO Foundation. "We look forward to working with IFPA to help mobilize support for WHO-led efforts that strengthen evidence, policy guidance and access to care. Stronger data will help countries make more informed decisions, integrate psoriasis into health systems and advance progress toward universal health coverage"
One of key areas for this collaboration will build on the resolution on psoriasis, adopted in 2014, and the Global Report on Psoriasis, published in 2016 - milestone documents brought psoriasis onto the global health agenda for the first time.
As more than a decade has passed since the adoption and publication of these key documents, an update is both necessary and urgent. Under the agreement, IFPA and WHO will collaborate to revise the Global Report on Psoriasis, incorporating new prevalence data, recent scientific advances and treatment developments. Since 2016, research has further clarified the systemic nature of psoriasis and its links to other serious health conditions, while new targeted therapies have significantly improved outcomes for many people.
Other priorities for this collaboration will include:
- sharing evidence-based guidance and policy recommendations with member states
- developing AI-driven diagnostic tools for earlier and more accurate detection, especially in low-resource settings:
- training healthcare professionals to recognize and manage the disease more effectively.
In addition, it is expected that the effort will help bring psoriasis into the broader global conversation about chronic diseases and mental health and ensure that people living with it are no longer left behind.
About IFPA
IFPA (the International Federation of Psoriasis Associations), founded in 1971 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, is the global organization dedicated to advocating for everyone affected by psoriatic disease. IFPA's members include national and regional patient associations and represent over 60 million people worldwide. Through global coalitions, World Psoriasis Day campaigns, the IFPA Forum, and the World Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Conference, IFPA is redefining psoriatic disease as a key lens for stronger, more inclusive health systems.
https://www.ifpa-pso.com/
About WHO Foundation
The WHO Foundation is an independent organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created in 2020 to support the mission of the World Health Organization. It mobilizes philanthropic capital and builds catalytic partnerships to advance health equity, respond to urgent health challenges, and strengthen systems that save lives. By connecting partners and practitioners, the Foundation helps scale trusted solutions, fund life-saving responses, and drive lasting change toward Health for All.
Learn more: https://www.who.foundation/
GENEVA, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA) and the WHO Foundation have signed a multi-year collaboration agreement supporting WHO efforts to strengthen global understanding, diagnosis and care for psoriasis. The collaboration aims to improve outcomes for the more than 100 million people living with psoriasis worldwide.
Psoriasis is a chronic noncommunicable disease that manifests on the skin, but in fact affects the whole body. It is closely linked to depression, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other serious health conditions. For many people, psoriasis can take a heavy physical, emotional and financial toll.
Despite its dramatic impact globally, psoriasis remains one of the most misunderstood and overlooked health conditions. According to Global Psoriasis Atlas, only about 20 percent of countries currently have epidemiological data on psoriasis. The absence of reliable data has contributed to delayed diagnosis, unequal access to care, and a lack of understanding of psoriasis as a chronic disease, affecting all aspects of one's life.
The agreement signed between IFPA and the WHO Foundation marks an important milestone in IFPA's engagement with global health partners and supports WHO-led efforts to strengthen the understanding and management of psoriasis. The multi-year collaboration will focus on strengthening evidence, updating knowledge and policy tools, and improving access to diagnosis and care.
"Signing this agreement with WHO Foundation is a pivotal moment for IFPA and the entire global psoriasis community. We are happy to join efforts with WHO and to leverage its global health leadership to make a profound impact, so that people living with psoriasis can choose and live the lives they want. Today, many people, especially in low- and middle-income countries, live without a proper diagnosis and access to care. More than 80% of people living with psoriasis face stigma and discrimination, nearly half struggle with anxiety, and every third reports to avoid career or study opportunities due to their health condition. We are committed to working together to change this," - said Frida Dunger, IFPA's Executive Director.
"Psoriasis illustrates how skin health connects to broader noncommunicable diseases, mental health and access to care," - said Anil Soni, Chief Executive Officer of the WHO Foundation. "We look forward to working with IFPA to help mobilize support for WHO-led efforts that strengthen evidence, policy guidance and access to care. Stronger data will help countries make more informed decisions, integrate psoriasis into health systems and advance progress toward universal health coverage"
One of key areas for this collaboration will build on the resolution on psoriasis, adopted in 2014, and the Global Report on Psoriasis, published in 2016 - milestone documents brought psoriasis onto the global health agenda for the first time.
As more than a decade has passed since the adoption and publication of these key documents, an update is both necessary and urgent. Under the agreement, IFPA and WHO will collaborate to revise the Global Report on Psoriasis, incorporating new prevalence data, recent scientific advances and treatment developments. Since 2016, research has further clarified the systemic nature of psoriasis and its links to other serious health conditions, while new targeted therapies have significantly improved outcomes for many people.
Other priorities for this collaboration will include:
- sharing evidence-based guidance and policy recommendations with member states
- developing AI-driven diagnostic tools for earlier and more accurate detection, especially in low-resource settings:
- training healthcare professionals to recognize and manage the disease more effectively.
In addition, it is expected that the effort will help bring psoriasis into the broader global conversation about chronic diseases and mental health and ensure that people living with it are no longer left behind.
About IFPA
IFPA (the International Federation of Psoriasis Associations), founded in 1971 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, is the global organization dedicated to advocating for everyone affected by psoriatic disease. IFPA's members include national and regional patient associations and represent over 60 million people worldwide. Through global coalitions, World Psoriasis Day campaigns, the IFPA Forum, and the World Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis Conference, IFPA is redefining psoriatic disease as a key lens for stronger, more inclusive health systems.
https://www.ifpa-pso.com/
About WHO Foundation
The WHO Foundation is an independent organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created in 2020 to support the mission of the World Health Organization. It mobilizes philanthropic capital and builds catalytic partnerships to advance health equity, respond to urgent health challenges, and strengthen systems that save lives. By connecting partners and practitioners, the Foundation helps scale trusted solutions, fund life-saving responses, and drive lasting change toward Health for All.
Learn more: https://www.who.foundation/
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
IFPA and WHO Foundation launch a strategic collaboration to strengthen global psoriasis care
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New AgenticOps capabilities in networking, security, and observability reimagine how to automate, scale, and simplify IT operations in the AI era.
News Summary:
- Cisco advances AgenticOps as the operating model for modern IT.
- New capabilities extend agentic‑driven operations with intelligent execution across networking, security, and observability.
- New tools, skills, and platform enhancements equip organizations to meet the demands of the AI era, delivering reliability, accuracy, and control at scale.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE EMEA -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new AgenticOps innovations for the AI era. First launched last year, AgenticOps is an agent-first IT operating model for autonomous action with built-in oversight. New capabilities unveiled today across networking, security, and observability further transform how IT teams operate at scale.
IT environments are increasingly distributed and dynamic, placing growing operational and security demands on already stretched teams. Addressing these demands requires a new operational model, one that enables intelligent execution while preserving the reliability, accuracy, and governance organizations require. Cisco's AgenticOps is built for this reality, providing the foundation to absorb operational complexity and operate effectively at scale.
"For teams responsible for operating and securing distributed networks and infrastructure, AgenticOps represents a profound and fundamental shift away from complexity," said Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. "This is the true power of Cisco as a platform. By delivering agentic capabilities aligned to critical IT operations priorities, we're combining Cisco's unique cross‑domain visibility, purpose-built models, and governance together to supercharge teams."
Last year, Cisco introduced AgenticOps and redefined how AI is applied in networking to manage the growing complexity of modern IT operations. Powered by advanced AI and unified network data, including the Deep Network Model, solutions like Agentic Workflows and AI Canvas help IT teams troubleshoot faster and automate securely. Now, Cisco is extending agentic-driven operations across networking, security, and observability, delivering AgenticOps to support IT operations in cloud, on‑premises, air‑gapped industrial, enterprise, data center, and service provider environments.
Cisco's AgenticOps is informed by system‑wide awareness drawn from one of the industry's richest sources of cross‑domain telemetry across Cisco Networking, Security Cloud Control, Cisco Nexus One, Splunk, and more. By ingesting live signals from owned and unowned networks, security controls, applications, and collaboration platforms, including Cisco ThousandEyes, Secure Firewall, and Splunk Observability, AgenticOps delivers context‑aware, agentic execution at real‑world operational scale. The result is trusted, closed‑loop execution that shifts day‑to‑day operations from humans to machines, while keeping teams firmly in control of outcomes.
New tools, skills, and platform enhancements across networking, security, and observability include:
Operating Networks at AI Scale with Intelligent Execution
- Campus, Branch, and Industrial
- Autonomous Troubleshooting: End-to-end agentic investigations across campus, branch, and industrial networks triage connectivity and experience issues, cutting MTTR to minutes. Applies reasoning from telemetry to root cause, validating multiple hypotheses simultaneously and executing deterministic remediations with CCIE-grade precision.
- Continuous Optimization: Context-aware agentic recommendations to prevent performance degradation before users feel it. Continuously maintains user experience by autonomously tuning RF, QoS, path, and control planes with a live understanding of end-to-end network conditions.
- Trusted Validation: Risk-aware agentic assessments validate network changes against live topology, configuration, and telemetry, including identifying impact and blast radius. Leverages deep reasoning to perform complex tasks such as compliance validation.
- Experience Metrics: Transforms thousands of network signals into a single view focused on clear, actionable metrics for user experience, such as Time to Connect, Capacity, and Roaming.
- Agentic Workflow Creation: Create production-ready, deterministic automations within Cisco AI Assistant for custom, repeatable, and verifiable workflows based on environment conditions.
- Agentic capabilities for Campus, Branch, and Industrial will start rolling out February 2026.
- Data Center: Early detection and intelligent event correlation with AgenticOps for data center networks enables the delivery of prescriptive recommendations to optimize performance. By providing actionable insights across traditional and AI workloads, the solution drives proactive operations and significantly improves business outcomes. This capability enhances the observability and unified operations of Cisco Nexus One. Controlled availability in June 2026.
- Service Provider: Accelerating the journey to autonomous networking, agentic capabilities in Crosswork AI identify, diagnose, and resolve complex, multi‑vendor issues in service provider networks with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence. Now in beta.
Turbocharging Firewall Operations in Cisco Security Cloud Control
- Proactive Recommendations: Proactive analysis of firewall traffic, including both the applications accessed and mode of access, allows agentic policy capabilities to identify and recommend more robust zero trust controls for sensitive applications. These capabilities can then propose actions tailored to each customer's environment, which can be executed with a single click.
- Operational Efficiency: AgenticOps troubleshooting and optimization capabilities detect issues such as elephant flows impacting firewall performance, perform full-context analysis, and propose remediation options that can be executed in one click.
- Continuous Compliance: Agentic compliance capabilities continuously evaluate firewall configurations to automatically identify PCI-DSS deviations and recommend remediations to stay compliant.
- General availability is targeted in May 2026.
Visibility and Control Across Agentic Applications
- Tracking the performance, cost, quality, and behavior of LLM and agentic applications, AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud visualizes agent workflows and will soon integrate with Cisco AI Defense to mitigate risks that inhibit trust in AI models, such as bias, hallucinations, data leakage, and prompt injection. Generally available February 25.
"The industry is clearly moving toward more agentic models of IT operations, but execution and trust will determine who leads," said Ron Westfall, VP and Practice Leader, Infrastructure and Networking, HyperFRAME Research. "Cisco's AgenticOps approach is compelling because it grounds AI‑driven operations in decades of operational expertise, strong guardrails, and clear human oversight. That combination positions Cisco firmly as enterprises look for practical ways to manage growing scale and complexity without introducing new risk."
Additional Resources:
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco.
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word 'partner' does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.
Disclaimer: Many of the products and features mentioned are still in development and will be made available as they are finalized, subject to ongoing evolution in development and innovation. The timeline for their release is subject to change.
New AgenticOps capabilities in networking, security, and observability reimagine how to automate, scale, and simplify IT operations in the AI era.
News Summary:
- Cisco advances AgenticOps as the operating model for modern IT.
- New capabilities extend agentic‑driven operations with intelligent execution across networking, security, and observability.
- New tools, skills, and platform enhancements equip organizations to meet the demands of the AI era, delivering reliability, accuracy, and control at scale.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE EMEA -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced new AgenticOps innovations for the AI era. First launched last year, AgenticOps is an agent-first IT operating model for autonomous action with built-in oversight. New capabilities unveiled today across networking, security, and observability further transform how IT teams operate at scale.
IT environments are increasingly distributed and dynamic, placing growing operational and security demands on already stretched teams. Addressing these demands requires a new operational model, one that enables intelligent execution while preserving the reliability, accuracy, and governance organizations require. Cisco's AgenticOps is built for this reality, providing the foundation to absorb operational complexity and operate effectively at scale.
"For teams responsible for operating and securing distributed networks and infrastructure, AgenticOps represents a profound and fundamental shift away from complexity," said Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. "This is the true power of Cisco as a platform. By delivering agentic capabilities aligned to critical IT operations priorities, we're combining Cisco's unique cross‑domain visibility, purpose-built models, and governance together to supercharge teams."
Last year, Cisco introduced AgenticOps and redefined how AI is applied in networking to manage the growing complexity of modern IT operations. Powered by advanced AI and unified network data, including the Deep Network Model, solutions like Agentic Workflows and AI Canvas help IT teams troubleshoot faster and automate securely. Now, Cisco is extending agentic-driven operations across networking, security, and observability, delivering AgenticOps to support IT operations in cloud, on‑premises, air‑gapped industrial, enterprise, data center, and service provider environments.
Cisco's AgenticOps is informed by system‑wide awareness drawn from one of the industry's richest sources of cross‑domain telemetry across Cisco Networking, Security Cloud Control, Cisco Nexus One, Splunk, and more. By ingesting live signals from owned and unowned networks, security controls, applications, and collaboration platforms, including Cisco ThousandEyes, Secure Firewall, and Splunk Observability, AgenticOps delivers context‑aware, agentic execution at real‑world operational scale. The result is trusted, closed‑loop execution that shifts day‑to‑day operations from humans to machines, while keeping teams firmly in control of outcomes.
New tools, skills, and platform enhancements across networking, security, and observability include:
Operating Networks at AI Scale with Intelligent Execution
- Campus, Branch, and Industrial
- Autonomous Troubleshooting: End-to-end agentic investigations across campus, branch, and industrial networks triage connectivity and experience issues, cutting MTTR to minutes. Applies reasoning from telemetry to root cause, validating multiple hypotheses simultaneously and executing deterministic remediations with CCIE-grade precision.
- Continuous Optimization: Context-aware agentic recommendations to prevent performance degradation before users feel it. Continuously maintains user experience by autonomously tuning RF, QoS, path, and control planes with a live understanding of end-to-end network conditions.
- Trusted Validation: Risk-aware agentic assessments validate network changes against live topology, configuration, and telemetry, including identifying impact and blast radius. Leverages deep reasoning to perform complex tasks such as compliance validation.
- Experience Metrics: Transforms thousands of network signals into a single view focused on clear, actionable metrics for user experience, such as Time to Connect, Capacity, and Roaming.
- Agentic Workflow Creation: Create production-ready, deterministic automations within Cisco AI Assistant for custom, repeatable, and verifiable workflows based on environment conditions.
- Agentic capabilities for Campus, Branch, and Industrial will start rolling out February 2026.
- Data Center: Early detection and intelligent event correlation with AgenticOps for data center networks enables the delivery of prescriptive recommendations to optimize performance. By providing actionable insights across traditional and AI workloads, the solution drives proactive operations and significantly improves business outcomes. This capability enhances the observability and unified operations of Cisco Nexus One. Controlled availability in June 2026.
- Service Provider: Accelerating the journey to autonomous networking, agentic capabilities in Crosswork AI identify, diagnose, and resolve complex, multi‑vendor issues in service provider networks with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence. Now in beta.
Turbocharging Firewall Operations in Cisco Security Cloud Control
- Proactive Recommendations: Proactive analysis of firewall traffic, including both the applications accessed and mode of access, allows agentic policy capabilities to identify and recommend more robust zero trust controls for sensitive applications. These capabilities can then propose actions tailored to each customer's environment, which can be executed with a single click.
- Operational Efficiency: AgenticOps troubleshooting and optimization capabilities detect issues such as elephant flows impacting firewall performance, perform full-context analysis, and propose remediation options that can be executed in one click.
- Continuous Compliance: Agentic compliance capabilities continuously evaluate firewall configurations to automatically identify PCI-DSS deviations and recommend remediations to stay compliant.
- General availability is targeted in May 2026.
Visibility and Control Across Agentic Applications
- Tracking the performance, cost, quality, and behavior of LLM and agentic applications, AI Agent Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud visualizes agent workflows and will soon integrate with Cisco AI Defense to mitigate risks that inhibit trust in AI models, such as bias, hallucinations, data leakage, and prompt injection. Generally available February 25.
"The industry is clearly moving toward more agentic models of IT operations, but execution and trust will determine who leads," said Ron Westfall, VP and Practice Leader, Infrastructure and Networking, HyperFRAME Research. "Cisco's AgenticOps approach is compelling because it grounds AI‑driven operations in decades of operational expertise, strong guardrails, and clear human oversight. That combination positions Cisco firmly as enterprises look for practical ways to manage growing scale and complexity without introducing new risk."
Additional Resources:
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on X at @Cisco.
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at http://www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word 'partner' does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.
Disclaimer: Many of the products and features mentioned are still in development and will be made available as they are finalized, subject to ongoing evolution in development and innovation. The timeline for their release is subject to change.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Cisco Expands AgenticOps Innovations Across Portfolio
